Anthony Kennedy Memoir Defends, Urges Civility | JQJO

At 89, former Justice Anthony Kennedy reflects on a life in law as his memoir, Life, Law & Liberty, arrives Tuesday from Simon & Schuster. The onetime Supreme Court swing vote recounts his Western roots, a fast rise from Sacramento practice to the 9th Circuit at 38, and cases that defined an era, from Planned Parenthood v. Casey to Obergefell. He says he left the Court to be with his wife, Mary, and still stands by Casey despite Dobbs. Now with grandchildren, he worries the Court’s tone has grown personal, urging a return to civility essential to democracy.